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Director: Andrzej Relidzyński
Deputy Director: Ryszard Pessel

phone: /+48 22/ 695-82-09; 695-87-87
fax: /+48 22/ 628-10-99
e-mail: drir@msp.gov.pl

Tasks of the Department of Reprivatisation and Compensation comprise:

1. preparation of assumptions for the restitution program, in particular:
   
   a) impact of industry nationalisation and agrarian reform of the years 1944-1962;
   
   b) impact of taking over by the Administrative District of Warsaw (Gmina m.st.Warszawy), starting from 21 November 1945, of the land located on the territory of Warsaw, on the basis of the Decree of 26 October 1945 on ownership and use of land located on the territory of Warsaw (Journal of Laws of 1985 No. 50, item 279, No. 22, item 99);
2. preparation of draft legislative documents concerning restitution, in the areas not restricted to other bodies;
3. providing interested parties with information concerning legal possibilities for pursuit of restitution, as well as information concerning draft legal regulations within that scope;
4. co-operation with government and self-government administration bodies with respect to estimation of the scale and volume of restitution claims, gathering information and analyses within that scope;
5. elaboration of opinions in order to solve detailed problems pertaining to privatisation of property encumbered with restitution claims;
6. handling cases concerning the payment of compensations awarded by judicial orders or administrative decisions from the Restitution Fund;
7. administration of the national special purpose fund (the ‘Restitution Fund’) in accordance with the needs, and in particular the preparation of documents pertaining to the cases concerning the payment of compensations awarded by judicial orders or administrative decisions from the said Fund;
8. giving opinions (following obligatory applications from the department relevant for ownership supervision or privatisation) on restitution claims referred to in Article 56(l)(1) of the Act of 30 August 1996 on Commercialization and Privatization, regarding the planned sale of shares of state-owned companies (Journal of Laws of 2002 No. 171, item 1397, as amended);
9. handling cases pertaining to implementation and financial settlement of Compensation Payments for the public sector, pensioners and persons on disability benefits;
10. handling cases and co-ordination of implementation of tasks pertaining to the implementation of the Act of 8 July 2005 on Exercising the Right to Compensation Arising from Leaving Real Property Outside the Current Borders of the Polish State (Journal of Laws of 2006 No. 169, item 1418, No. 195, item 1437, Journal of Laws of 2008 No. 197, item 1223), in particular:
    
    a) establishment and maintaining the central register for individuals eligible to compensation;
    
    b) examination of appeals lodged against decisions issued by province governors and complaints concerning their orders submitted by individuals applying for confirmation of their rights to compensation;
    
    c) cooperation with Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego in scope of the compensation for eligible individuals;
    
    d) administration of the special purpose fund (‘Restitution Fund’).
11. performance of acts from within the scope of supervision of the Minister of the Treasury over the Agricultural Property Agency, in particular monitoring the performance of tasks and financial management of the Agricultural Property Agency and of the Agricultural Reserve of the Treasury.

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